The Land of the Soviets Is 70 Years Old

A fragment from the feature film "October" by S. M. Eisenstein: the storming of the Winter Palace. Filming by V.I. Lenin (1918-1920). Newsreel of the Civil War in Russia: Red Army men in the ranks, firing from a machine gun at enemy positions; cavalry in the attack. Bread is distributed to street children. The child lies on the ground, people are passing by. Construction, start-up of hydroelectric power plants. Melting metal in the shop of one of the metallurgical plants. Peasants at the first tractor in the village. Tractor in the factory yard. Adults in a class to eradicate illiteracy. Newsreel of the 2nd World War: Soviet troops in Berlin. Residents of different cities celebrate the Victory over Nazi Germany. Mikhail Gorbachev's speech at the XXVII Congress of the CPSU. Cars of the Belarusian Automobile Plant. Livestock complex. Computing center. Laser machine. Cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin in a spacesuit. Space rocket launch. A ship in the ice. Reindeer sledding races. Oil rig transportation. Gas pipeline construction. Vacationers near the building of the Metallurg sanatorium. Classes for children in kindergarten. Visitors in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage. Fragment from A. Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The opening ceremony of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow at the Lenin Stadium.

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Sound V. Schekutyev